The Colours of Darkness
The Abstracted Figure
'Who?' Oil on stretched canvas on a wooden frame, 96 x 83 cm. Available to buy, unframed, €950
'Inner Life.' Oil on stretched canvas. 50 x 70 cm. SOLD. Giclée prints and poster available on request.
'Echo.' Oil on stretched canvas. SOLD. Giclée prints and posters available on request.
'Nowhere to Hide.' Oil on paper mounted on canvas, SOLD. Prints available on request.
'Nowhere to Run' Oil on Canvas. SOLD. Giclée prints and posters available on request.
'Scrutiny.' Oil on stretched canvas, 119 x 78 cm. Available to buy, unframed, €2,200
'Light Being.' Oil paint and ink on Fabriano paper, float-mounted on board. 74 x 54 cm. SOLD. Giclée prints and posters available on request.
'Wings of Flight.' Four images created from oil paint over stone lithographs on Fabriano paper mounted on board. Each panel is set in an old-gold wood frame to create the complete picture. Overall size 98 x 98 cm. Available to buy, framed, €2,400.
'Ancestral Spirit.' Oil and oil pastel on stretched canvas, 90 x 78 cm. Available to buy, €1,800.
Shadows are grey, right?
Wrong! Shadows are blue, violet, turquoise. Shadows have auras - turquoise shadows have yellow auras, violet shadows have blue auras. To look at shadows, to really look at shadows is to go on a trip.
And what of our own shadows?
The ones that get distorted; the ones that we can never seem to shake off; or can never see clearly because our Selves get in the way; always. The ones we try to get to grips with in therapy rooms or confessionals? What of them?
Wherever we go, our shadow always accompanies us. As we move around it manifests itself as a darkening of the light. It can appear distorted according to the shape of the ground it has been cast onto. In psychotherapy we talk of the shadow side of our selves. It too, accompanies us wherever we go and, like the light shadow, it too can appear as a distortion of the self that we like to imagine ourselves to be. Try as we might to keep our outward appearance bland and 'normal,' the truth is that our shadow sides are often far more colourful than we give them credit for.